[TowerTalk] Insulated wire, theory

Lux, Jim jim at luxfamily.com
Wed Sep 21 10:17:25 EDT 2022


On 9/21/22 6:58 AM, Lux, Jim wrote:
> A discussion of how NEC4 does insulated wires (in short, by changing 
> the wave number of the propagation in the conductor) can be found in 
> the NEC4 Theory Manual.  Search for NEC4TheoryMan.pdf and there's 
> several copies out there.
>
>
> I suspect that EZNEC does it by a similar approach - changing the 
> length of the wire to a slightly shorter length to accommodate the 
> slower propagation in the insulated wire. That may have been done 
> semi-empirically 



More from the User Manual (which is marked export controlled, but if you 
have a copy, there's a short discussion of how it works)




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